Last year at this time I was writing about the spate of deaths that overtook Chicago’s theater community during the late summer and early fall of 2014. We lost at least a half-dozen artists—from thirtysomething actor/playwright Sati Word to 79-year-old teacher/director/mentor/griot/quiet benefactor Sheldon Patinkin—in a bare few weeks.
Theater Wit wins my Annus Mirabilis Award for presenting no less than three of the best dark comedies of 2015, all of them staged by the company’s artistic director, Jeremy Wechsler: Bad Jews, Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play, and The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence.
Still more favorites . . .
